The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, yet freedom truly arrived for many enslaved people on this day in history, June 19, 1865, originating in Galveston, Texas.
So freedom arrived on June 19, 1865, when about 2,000 Union troops, recounts the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, yet freedom did not arrive for many enslaved people until June 19, 1865. Today, Juneteenth is a federal holiday. The Union army with Major General Gordon Granger, commanding officer of the District of Texas, announced that more than 250,000 enslaved African American citizens in the state were free by executive decree, the same source cites. "Granger delivered to Galveston General Orders, No. 3. The order informed all Texans that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves were free," says the Galveston Historical Society. General Order No.
Unspecified enslaved Black people are shown sitting on the veranda of a cabin, with bushes growing in the front garden, in Georgia, circa 1895. The property is as it would have appeared before the American Civil War. It went on,"This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.
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